--- title: "Connect Grafana to Surplus Lines Tax API - APIANT.ai" description: "When \"New Dashboard\" fires in Grafana, your agent runs \"Calculate Surplus Lines Tax\" in Surplus Lines Tax API." canonical: "https://apiant.ai/connect/grafana-to-surplus-lines-tax-api" --- # Connect Grafana to Surplus Lines Tax API When **New Dashboard** fires in [Grafana](https://apiant.ai/connections/grafana), your agent runs **Calculate Surplus Lines Tax** in [Surplus Lines Tax API](https://apiant.ai/connections/surplus-lines-tax-api). Describe the whole flow and it is built, tested on every scenario and kept running. Grafana **1** trigger Grafana **24** actions Surplus Lines Tax API **3** actions What the catalog holds today. Ask for anything missing and your agent reads the API documentation and adds it. ## What do you want Grafana and Surplus Lines Tax API to do together? Give your AI client this address. `https://mcp.apiant.ai` One connection does both: ask your client to act in an app once, or have it build an automation that keeps running. Any client that takes a remote MCP server. Nothing to install. Create your free account, then sign in once in your browser. ### Set it up in your client ### Claude Code Run this in the directory you want to work in. `claude mcp add --transport http -s project apiant-ai https://mcp.apiant.ai` Start Claude Code there, approve the server, and sign in in the browser page it opens. [Claude Code guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp/claude-code) ### Claude, web and desktop Open Customize, then Connectors, then Add custom connector, and paste the address. On Team and Enterprise an owner adds it first. [Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp) ### Cursor Add the address to your MCP configuration as a server URL. Cursor signs you in in your browser. 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[Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp) Example flows ## What Grafana can start in Surplus Lines Tax API - When **New Dashboard** in Grafana then **Calculate Surplus Lines Tax** in Surplus Lines Tax API - When **New Dashboard** in Grafana then **Get historical tax rate** in Surplus Lines Tax API Starting points drawn from the triggers and actions in the catalog today. Describe the flow you need, at any depth, and your agent builds it and tests every scenario before it ships. Everything your agent can do with Grafana and Surplus Lines Tax API ## Triggers and actions 1 trigger · 27 actions - Trigger **New Dashboard** Triggers when a new dashboard is created in your Grafana instance. - Action **Add Team Member** Adds an existing Grafana user to a team. - Action **Create Alert Rule** Creates a Grafana-managed alert rule (or recording rule) in a folder and rule group, and returns the new rule. - Action **Create Annotation** Creates an annotation in Grafana, either on a specific dashboard panel or as an organization-wide annotation. Supports point-in-time and region annotations with tags. - Action **Create Folder** Creates a new folder in Grafana, optionally nested under a parent folder. - Action **Create or Update Dashboard** Creates a new dashboard or updates an existing one from a complete dashboard model, optionally placing it in a folder and recording a version-history message. - Action **Create Team** Creates a new team in your Grafana organization with a name and optional email. - Action **Delete Alert Rule** Deletes a Grafana-managed alert rule or recording rule by its UID. - Action **Delete Annotation** Deletes an annotation from Grafana by its id. - Action **Delete Dashboard** Deletes a dashboard from your Grafana instance by its unique identifier. - Action **Delete Folder** Deletes a Grafana folder along with all dashboards and alerts stored in it. - Action **Find Annotations** Returns annotations matching the given time range, dashboard, panel, user, alert, type or tags. - Action **Find Teams** Finds teams in your Grafana organization by name or partial name. - Action **Get Alert Rule** Returns a single Grafana-managed alert rule or recording rule by its UID, including its queries, labels, annotations and folder. - Action **Get Annotation** Returns a single annotation by its id, including its text, tags, time range and the dashboard and panel it belongs to. - Action **Get Dashboard** Returns a Grafana dashboard, including its full dashboard model and metadata such as its folder and URL, given the dashboard's unique identifier. - Action **Get Data Source** Returns a single Grafana data source, including its type, URL, access mode and settings, looked up by its UID. - Action **Get Folder** Returns a Grafana folder by its UID, including its title and parent folder. - Action **Get Team** Returns a Grafana team's details (name, email, organization, created and updated times) by its ID. - Action **List Data Sources** Returns all data sources configured in your Grafana organization, with their names, types and connection settings. - Action **List Folders** Returns all folders in your Grafana organization that you have permission to view, with each folder's UID, title and parent folder. - Action **Remove Team Member** Removes a user from a Grafana team. - Action **Update Alert Rule** Updates an existing Grafana alert or recording rule, replacing its title, queries, condition, labels and other settings. - Action **Update Annotation** Updates the text, tags, or time range of an existing annotation. Fields left blank keep their current values. - Action **Update Folder** Updates an existing folder's title, or moves it under a different parent folder. - Action **Calculate Surplus Lines Tax** Calculates the surplus lines tax, stamping fees and other statutory charges due on a policy premium for a given state. Returns the itemized breakdown, the total tax and the total amount due. - Action **Get historical tax rate** Returns the surplus lines tax rate, stamping fee and other statutory charges in force for a state on a given date. Leave the date empty for today's rates. - Action **Get Tax Rate** Returns the surplus lines tax rate, stamping fee and other statutory charges currently in force for a state. ## Each app on its own - [ **Grafana** Grafana offers application analytics visualization services and features graphing, styling, template...](https://apiant.ai/connections/grafana) - [ **Surplus Lines Tax API** Surplus Lines Tax API is a calculator for surplus lines taxes, stamping fees, and regulatory charges across...](https://apiant.ai/connections/surplus-lines-tax-api) Reviews ## What our customers say ## More from Grafana - [ **Grafana to HubSpot** HubSpot is your all-in-one stop for all of your marketing software needs.](https://apiant.ai/connect/grafana-to-hubspot) - [ **Grafana to Salesforce** Salesforce is a leading enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/grafana-to-salesforce) - [ **Grafana to Slack** Slack is a messaging platform for teams. Post messages, manage channels, users, reminders, and react to...](https://apiant.ai/connect/grafana-to-slack) - [ **Grafana to Mailchimp** Mailchimp marketing automation and email platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/grafana-to-mailchimp) - [ **Grafana to Stripe** Stripe is a payment processing platform for online businesses.](https://apiant.ai/connect/grafana-to-stripe) - [ **Grafana to Shopify** Shopify is a commerce platform for online stores and retail point-of-sale.](https://apiant.ai/connect/grafana-to-shopify) ## More into Surplus Lines Tax API - [ **HubSpot to Surplus Lines Tax API** HubSpot is your all-in-one stop for all of your marketing software needs.](https://apiant.ai/connect/hubspot-to-surplus-lines-tax-api) - [ **Salesforce to Surplus Lines Tax API** Salesforce is a leading enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/salesforce-to-surplus-lines-tax-api) - [ **Slack to Surplus Lines Tax API** Slack is a messaging platform for teams. Post messages, manage channels, users, reminders, and react to...](https://apiant.ai/connect/slack-to-surplus-lines-tax-api) - [ **Google Sheets to Surplus Lines Tax API** Google Sheets is Google's online spreadsheet app for creating, editing and sharing spreadsheets.](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-sheets-to-surplus-lines-tax-api) - [ **Gmail to Surplus Lines Tax API** Gmail is Google’s email service, featuring spam protection, search functions, and seamless integration with...](https://apiant.ai/connect/gmail-to-surplus-lines-tax-api) - [ **Google Calendar to Surplus Lines Tax API** Google Calendar is a time management tool providing scheduling features, event reminders, and integration...](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-calendar-to-surplus-lines-tax-api) Questions ## Grafana and Surplus Lines Tax API, answered ### ### What can start an automation from Grafana? Any of Grafana's 1 trigger in the catalog, including New Dashboard. Describe the moment in plain language and your agent picks the right one. ### ### What can your agent do in Surplus Lines Tax API when something happens in Grafana? Any of Surplus Lines Tax API's 3 actions, including Calculate Surplus Lines Tax, Get historical tax rate and Get Tax Rate. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Can it also run from Surplus Lines Tax API to Grafana? Surplus Lines Tax API has no triggers in the catalog today, so automations start in Grafana. If you need the other direction, ask: your agent reads Surplus Lines Tax API's API documentation and adds it. ### ### Do I have to build a connector for Grafana or Surplus Lines Tax API? No. Both are in the catalog with their triggers and actions. You describe the automation; your agent builds it, tests every scenario and keeps it running. ### ### Can my AI client use Grafana and Surplus Lines Tax API without building an automation? Yes. With your AI client connected to APIANT, ask it to do something in either app once and it runs that action on the spot. Ask for an automation and your agent builds it, tests every scenario and keeps it running. One connection covers both. ### ### What happens when something fails? Your agent works that out for you. It plans the failure paths along with the happy path, then tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Is there a free plan? Yes. Every plan includes the agent, including free, and building from your own AI client spends no assistant credits.